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WANTED A BETTER PHOTO OF THE - Detroit and Mackinac Railway - Bicentennial Diesel
Gary: Rail-fan
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WANTED A BETTER PHOTO OF THE - Detroit and Mackinac Railway - Bicentennial Diesel
Gary: Rail-fan
645 posted:trainroomgary posted:WANTED A BETTER PHOTO OF THE - Detroit and Mackinac Railway - Bicentennial Diesel
Gary: Rail-fan
You need to brush up on your internet searching skills. Found the below image in two minutes:
Do you want to share your searching procedures? • Gary: Rail-fan
Did the Preamble Express really cross the country to check clearances and set up schedules? Wouldn't the host railroads have already known where a train like this could go and would fit? I just found this picture of AFT 1 in Chicago, trying to back to Navy Pier.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/31203742@N00/33404544295/in/contacts/
Look at just the weeds growing in the track then. Trackage on and near the pier itself was one thing, but to get there required a sharp curve just out of this picture, and then passing under the Merchandise Mart, Sun Times Building, and Wrigley Building on an industrial spur was something else. I recall a story of Santa Fe wanting to show off one of its then-new full dome passenger cars under the Sun Times Building. IIRC, the dome didn't fit under the Mercandise Mart, so it was left not where it was originally planned. If a Preamble crew had come to Chicago and checked, wouldn't they have known AFT 1 not making it on those rickety tracks?
One of the ATSF Bi-Cents came to Houston to help power the AFT from Houston to Ft. Worth behind the 610.
There is a story the KCS unit made one of the old ACI readers malfunction!
From The Michigan Historical Society
Michigan Limestone & Chemical Railway / Roger City, Michigan
Gary: Rail-fan
The Preamble E 951 unit is still around. It is one of three UP E units used for specials. Now, I do not know when the last time it was used, or if it will be used anytime in the future.
Trainroom Gary thanks for all the research and posting so many of the Bicentennial units.
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